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Enter Yakovenko. Unlike Buterin, who is more a theorist and researcher than a coder, Yakovenko wants to do whatever it takes to onboard billions to crypto with a blockchain so fast it could rival traditional finance. “He doesn’t care about white papers. He doesn’t care about academia,” said Solana investor Kyle Samani, a managing partner at Multico... See more

I say Bitcoin is digital no-fucks-given.

- Vitalik Buterin

Again this underscores my core premise, which is that Ethereum should maximize economic activity within its platform (including rollups) and ETH should position as a true permissionless, digital store of value (see related tweets from Doug & Sassal) more so than an interest-bearing capital asset.

Credible neutrality is primary value proposition of crypto today.

This was surprising to me. So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from Infura and Alchemy without any further verification.